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Pearson Senior Technical Lead - Cloud Engineering in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Senior Technical Lead - Cloud Engineering - ( 2010139 )
Description
Learner at the Heart
Pearson is a global education company that helps people around the world to make progress in their lives through learning. With a rich heritage that combines 170 years of experience in publishing with the latest learning technology and digital services, we help people to learn whatever, wherever and however they choose.
We are now transforming Pearson to accelerate our activity in digital learning, education services and emerging markets. This will enable us to make a lasting impact in helping to solve some of the most important challenges in global education.
Why We Need You
We believe education is a vital force that can empower people, help them to reach their potential and contribute to more connected communities, all around the world.
Our strength comes from our outstanding people; our strong relationships in the education world; our expertise in using technology to help people learn; our global footprint and local reach; and our position as a profitable, global company with a unifying sense of purpose.
We're investing in our technology and infrastructure. By working at Pearson, you have a unique chance to make a real difference to the lives of people all over the world.
Across the world we believe strength and success comes from diversity in our people - all qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. In the US, Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V/D, and a member of E-Verify.
About the Job
This role will be responsible to deliver high quality Cloud infrastructure for numerous products at Pearson ensuring scalability, resiliency, availability and recovery. With the limitless technology variations, it opens the opportunity for continuous dynamic innovations, conceptualizing strategies that will deliver faster, reliable and scalable applications. You will be hired as one of the best and brightest in your field who can challenge our team to think about solutions differently and contribute to the continuous growth of the team's performance.
Scope
You will form part of a global team that will drive best practice in the hybrid cloud ecosystem, we work in a lean agile fashion with fortnightly sprints. You will be expected to collaborate with and support other agile product development teams and operational teams whose primary responsibilities will be to support education services in production and pre-production environments.
Scope could include leadership responsibilities, regional and functional influence, collaboration on global initiatives. Expectation to support 24/7/365/day on-call operations personnel. Some travel may be required (infrequent) and 16X5 On-desk support.
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Qualifications
About You
We’re looking for passionate engineers with a hunger to learn and adapt to new technology quickly. We demand people who are naturally curious, can self-start and share learnings and outcomes effectively with a distributed team.
Things We Expect You to Know:
Minimum six (6) years of experience in Cloud computing based service architecture including at least 2 years with leadership responsibilities.
Hands on experience public cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure etc…)
An established history of working in agile teams
Demonstrated experience in designing AWS architecture for new cloud computing systems or existing systems migrating to cloud architectures.
Performs expert-level systems AWS development and design work that may include logical system design; I/O design; cloud architecture analysis and design; and systems engineering.
Automate all things by default, believe and practiced CI/CD best practices
Advanced knowledge of cloud technologies and cloud infrastructure, including networking, VPCs, VGWs, DNS. (AWS preferred)
Solid experience with Cloud CI, Dockers, Kubernetes and Containerization is required.
Experience writing technical documentation for a technical audience.
A firm practitioner of DevOps/SRE principles.
A deep understanding of distributed system design and dependency management
Experience in leading Software Engineering, DevOps and/or SRE teams.
Work closely with the business and Engineers on issues related to design and requirements
Ensure that engineering best practices standards, policies and procedures are adhered to
Drive change to implement efficient and effective strategies as advised by management
Work closely with product manager and scrum master to fully understand the business requirement
Gain enough domain knowledge to be able to actively participate in specifying software solutions for business requirements
Ensure that projects are accurately estimated and delivered to schedule
Show flexibility to respond to the changing needs of the business
Assume a high level of ownership of all work developed by members of the team.
Train and integrate new team members and proactively support the continued development of existing team members
Support management to implement team goals and objectives
Supervise, train, guide and inspire team members
How to collaborate with a globally distributed team of engineers using tools like chat
Our Tools of the Trade
We work at the moment with the following tools, we understand everyone will do a bit of learning on the job, but you will need to be able to meaningfully contribute to a selection of these tools:
Required:
Must work well on an engineering team
Experience building and operating AWS cloud infrastructure.
Experience with DevOps tools (CI/CD, Git, scripting, Gradle, Maven, Docker builds, etc.)
Agile tools(Jira)
Must have considerable experience with at least 3 of the items below:
Terraform
Ansible
Cloudformation
Gitlab
Gitops(Flux)
Must have solid experience with at least 1 of the languages below:
Go
Java
NodeJS
Python
Nice to have:
NGINX
Jenkins
Vault
Consul
Keycloak
Testing and quality engineering
CI/CD components and process design
System metrics gathering for improvements
Desirable Skills
Experience of working with or contributing directly to Open Source projects
Understanding and experience of leading/managing technology products
Experience of working with failure-based testing, for example Simian Army
Delivering web-scale products to a global market at high release velocity
Educational Skills
- Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Preferred Professional Qualifications
- AWS certified solutions architect associate or professional.
Personal Skills
Ability to Influence technical decision making
Previous experience of contributing to war rooms and blameless postmortems
Superb communication skills, written and verbal
Experience of working in a true DevOps environment with daily collaborations
Experience screening new candidates to join the team
English as a business language
Primary Location : LK-LK-Colombo
Work Locations :
LK-Colombo-200 Nawala Maga One
Maga OneNo. 200, Nawala Road, Narahenpita
Colombo
Job : Engineering
Organization : Technology & Operations
Employee Status : Regular Employee
Job Type : Standard
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Shift : Day Job
Job Posting : Nov 25, 2020
Job Unposting : Ongoing
Schedule: : Full-time Regular
Req ID: 2010139